milieu

[ mil-yoo, meel-; French mee-lyœ ]

/ mɪlˈyʊ, mil-; French miˈlyœ /

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noun, plural mi·lieus, French mi·lieux [mee-lyœ] /miˈlyœ/.

surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.

Origin of milieu

1795–1805; < French, equivalent to mi (< Latin medius middle; see medium) + lieu lieu

SYNONYMS FOR milieu

background, sphere, setting. See environment.

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Words nearby milieu

miliary abscess, miliary embolism, miliary fever, miliary tuberculosis, milicent, milieu, milieu therapy, milit., militant, militant tendency, militaria

Example sentences from the Web for milieu

Above all, artists deserve a milieu in which musical talent is celebrated and given some acknowledgement in the media.

Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting |Ted Gioia |March 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
She deems her work “craft with modern techniques” and has been welcomed into the milieu despite an unconventional approach.

The New Queens of Haute Couture |Sarah Moroz |January 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Instead he describes the milieu in which the works were created and received.

Best Year Ever: How 1922 Birthed Modernism |Mark Braude |September 14, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
That was the milieu he came from: the paid-by-the-word grind of the hack writer.

Elmore Leonard Was the Cool King of Crime Fiction |Malcolm Jones |August 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

The two shows are so similar—premise, tone, characters, milieu—that comparisons are inevitable.

‘Low Winter Sun’ Might Be the New ‘Wire’ |Andrew Romano |August 9, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Elle se tenait au milieu de la porte, un peu de ct, avec le visage tourn vers moi.

Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death |Frederick W. H. Myers
Other botanists—French, German, and English—have also been led to believe in the direct influence of the milieu, or environment.

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution |Alpheus Spring Packard
Comme il se couchait de trs bonne heure, il lui arrivait de s'veiller au milieu de la nuit.

Since Czanne |Clive Bell
On the Zone, the Spanish labourer works in order to save and to depart, the milieu being foreign to him and unattractive.

The Panama Canal and its Makers |Vaughan Cornish
No playwright is more joyously observant than Mr. Jones; and none observes more accurately, in the milieu that he has chosen.

Dolly Reforming Herself |Henry Arthur Jones

British Dictionary definitions for milieu

milieu

/ (ˈmiːljɜː, French miljø) /

noun plural -lieux (-ljɜː, -ljɜːz, French -ljø) or -lieus

surroundings, location, or setting

Word Origin for milieu

C19: from French, from mi- mid 1 + lieu place

Medical definitions for milieu

milieu

[ mĭl-yu′, mēl-yœ′ ]

n. pl. mi•lieus

The totality of one's surroundings; an environment.

The social setting of a mental patient.

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milieu

noun, plural mi·lieus, French mi·lieux [mee-lyœ] /miˈlyœ/.

Origin of milieu

SYNONYMS FOR milieu

Words nearby milieu

Example sentences from the Web for milieu

British Dictionary definitions for milieu

noun plural -lieux (-ljɜː, -ljɜːz, French -ljø) or -lieus

Word Origin for milieu

Medical definitions for milieu

n. pl. mi•lieus

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milieu

noun, plural mi·lieus, French mi·lieux [mee-lyœ] /miˈlyœ/.

Origin of milieu

SYNONYMS FOR milieu

Words nearby milieu

Words related to milieu

Example sentences from the Web for milieu

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noun plural -lieux (-ljɜː, -ljɜːz, French -ljø) or -lieus

Word Origin for milieu

Medical definitions for milieu

n. pl. mi•lieus

British Dictionary definitions for milieu